Word: superslick
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...refused to kill women and children in a raid. Lai Xi and Li make an uneasy truce long enough to escort a general's daughter (Vicky Zhao Wei) and a Buddhist monk to safety. Can they escape the pursuit of evil Master An (Wang Xueqi), the preening aesthete and superslick fighter who stands in their path...
...first glance, it all seemed like conventional movie fare. But about half an hour into the film, anyone anticipating a Hollywood-style thriller began to notice something was amiss. Despite the superslick credits, snappy editing, witty dialogue and driving soundtrack, the expected adrenaline-pumping scenes failed to materialize. Where were the car chases, fight scenes, stunts, gun battles and helicopter crashes? There were none. Throughout the movie's entire 119 minutes, none of the five main characters even held a gun. When a lunatic actually pulled a pistol in the station house, the whole joint?of cops, mind you?practically...
Nickel Creek has been hailed by country fans turned off by the superslick pop sound that Nashville has been peddling in recent years. The band members earned their right to be playful with the form by becoming some of the best players around. They learned their tricks from "newgrass" innovators such as Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, then went off in search of even sweeter harmonies and trickier licks. Now success is arriving faster than the Orange Blossom Special. Nickel Creek's video, When You Come Back Down, is in heavy rotation on CMT, and its eponymous debut album cracked...
...that the superslick, pastel-colored, amply budgeted, big-screen rendition of "Charlie's Angels" has been released, the time has come to reevaluate the television series that inspired the movie, and set off the gals-with-big-guns-and-even-bigger-hair trend for a short time in the late '70s. Let's remember "Charlie's Angels" as it truly was: a pathetically awful bit of TV. Its emphasis on fine bodies, scenic locales and perfect hair didn't elevate it to "so bad it's good" status (a la "Cop Rock"); the show was, to be blunt...
...began for the N.C.A.A. Championship. The teams came from all over: Michigan's No. 1-ranked Wolverines, biggest of the Big Ten, with Cazzie Russell and a squad that averaged 206 Ibs. per man; U.C.L.A.'s No. 2-ranked Bruins, scoring 84 points a game with their superslick offense. There was Wichita, tops in the Missouri Valley Conference; No. 4 Providence, which lost only one game all season; and Princeton, with Bill Bradley, everybody's All-America, scorer of 2,326 points in a three-year career...